Promising 22
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Last published Sat, Dec 13, 2025
2nd book in the series
>Lorcan Callahan has always lived life with discipline-brilliant, athletic, and admired. He is the kind of man people expect to succeed. But behind his calm, soft-spoken nature lies a choice that tests both his heart and his resolve.
>Alisha Redmond, his younger sister's best friend, has admired him for as long as she can remember. At sixteen, she knows he is out of reach, yet something about the quiet genius draws her closer. Lorcan, however, is unwavering. He knows the years between them matter, and he refuses to cross a line that should not be crossed.
But time changes everything. As Alisha grows, so does her determination-and so does the bond, neither of them can ignore. At twenty-one, she is no longer the girl Lorcan once pushed away. She is a woman with dreams, choices, and a heart set on him.
He promised himself he'd never fall.
She promised she'd make him.
Some promises are meant to be broken.
Promising 22 is a heartfelt story about patience, restraint, and the uncertain promise of love tested by time.
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Boys of tommen
33 parts- 3 parts
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17 year-old Tadhg Lynch is a hot-headed hurler, haunted by a past that his family appears to have moved on from. Despite his tough and violent exterior, he is left vunerable after the trauma his parents left on him. All his siblings have someone to confide in after the events held 5 years ago, except for him. May Robbins is an English girl currently studying her final school year in Ireland ever since she moved during the summer. Troubled by her sick mother, she attempts to start fresh at a new school after the events of the previous year. A hopeless romantic at heart, she loves reading and writing, and dreams to be an author after she leaves school. Will she get a fairy-tale romance of her own?Complete
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RECLAIMING 4 || TADHG LYNCH X LEAH DALY
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Choosing 7
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For all of Gigi's life she's forced away all the bad and radiated nothing but goodness. That is until one fateful night when she just can't take it anymore. A bottle of vodka in one hand and the other gripping a ledge, she promises herself that finishing what should have happened all those years ago will release her and those she loves from so much pain. Joey Lynch does not need any more stress in his life. Both he and his siblings were finally free from the hellscape that was their lives and are now prospering in their new foster home with the Kavanaughs. He's sober, going to a good school, and finally starting to feel like a person again or is he? After seeing his ex at a party he finds himself needing something to quiet his mind, quiet that specific voice. What he didn't need was to find a girl clutching a bottle of vodka as she sat on the very bridge he once had. He knows her. How could he forget a girl like her? A promise for a promise. Secret for a secret. He just wants her to come down and she wants him to go away. Two 6s find one another after many years of pain and find a form of peace in each other's darkness. The question is: Who will break their promise first?Complete
For Joey Lynch, the world was never anything but a rotten, cruel battlefield. Born on a holiday meant for light, he was instead forged in the darkness of an abusive legacy, forced to become a protector before he was even a boy. He is a creature of trauma and raw survival, forever battling the seductive, drowning pull of addiction that promises a final escape. But there has always been a light in the dark for him. Just a singular, defiant spark: Estella, his sister's best friend. She is a magnificent anomaly, a walking, breathing sunbeam in his grime-coated life. Her hair is a shock of bright, liquid silver, catching the light like spilled moonlight, framing a face that is dizzyingly, charmingly cute. Her eyes, wide and unnerving, are the colour of molten silver.When she stares up at Joey, meeting his trauma-hardened gaze with her impossible luminosity and a cheeky, uncompromising grin, he knows: she is trouble. The necessary kind. He has lost everything: his peace, his innocence, his stability. But she is the one thing that can never slip away. Not when he snarls and retreats like a cornered animal; she simply stares, her bright eyes unsettlingly steady, and deploys that silly, confident grin. God, he is putty in her hands. The temptation between them is a physical, humming wire, stretched taut for years. But when they finally give in-when the shadow reaches for the light, and the light does not pull away-things dare to take a turn for the worse. As Joey fights his darkest demons, trying to fend off his violent father and the relentless grip of addiction, he discovers that the girl who glows has been quietly burning, too. They need to decide if this fierce, hard-won love can genuinely tame all the anger and war within them... ... and if a single, silver light is truly the answer to all the world's rot.
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